Summary

Back by popular demand! Our fifth anthology featuring originalStar Trek,Star Trek: The Next Generation,Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, andStar Trek: Voyager stories written byStar Trekfans, forStar Trekfans!The past five Strange New Worlds competitions have drawn thousands of submissions. This new galaxy of amazing stories, proves that our writers keep on expanding the boundaries of their collective imaginations.Strange New Worlds V features newly released stories spanning the twenty-third and twenty-fourth centuries, from the early days of Captain Kirk and his crew to the later generations of Captains Picard, Sisko, and Janeway. These unforgettable stories explore and examine the past and future of Star Trek from many different perspectives.Join Strange New Worlds in its thrilling quest to uncover the most compelling Star Trek fiction this side of the Galactic Barrier!

Author Biography

Considered one of the most prolific writers working in modern fiction, USA TODAY bestselling writer, Dean Wesley Smith published far over a hundred novels in forty years, and hundreds of short stories across many genres. He currently produces novels in four major series, including the time travel Thunder Mountain novels set in the old west, the galaxy-spanning Seeders Universe series, the urban fantasy Ghost of a Chance series, and the superhero series staring Poker Boy. During his career he also wrote a couple dozen Star Trek novels, the only two original Men in Black novels, Spider-Man and X-Men novels, plus novels set in gaming and television worlds.

Introduction
Star Trek“
Triptych (Second Prize)
The Quick and the Dead
The First Law of Metaphysics
The Hero of My Own Life
Doctors Three
Star Trek the Next Generation“
I Am Klingon (Third Prize)
Reciprocity
Calculated Risk
Gods, Fate, and Fractals
I Am Become Death
Star Trek Deep Space Nine“
Research
Change of Heart
Star Trek Voyager“
A Ribbon for Rosie (Grand Prize)
Touched
Almost...But Not Quite
The Healing Arts
Seventh Heaven
Afterword
Contest Rules
About the Contributors
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Excerpts

Introduction

Welcome toStrange New Worlds V.It feels wonderful to write those words. When we first started doing these contest anthologies, there was no way to know that the idea would work. Lots of things seem like they are destined for success and then turn out not to be.

The thing that has made theStrange New Worldsanthologies work, I think, is that they are a labor of love from all sides, from the thousands of fans who write and send in the stories (whether their stories are to be found in this volume or not), to the publisher and editors, who are all writers as well, and who understand the drive to get your story down the way you want to write it, to tell theStar Trekstory that won't get out of your head.

Perhaps the most impressive thing, and a lesson to us all, is the number of stories about the cast of the brand-new showEnterprisethat were submitted. With only days between the airing of the first episode and the closing deadline for this anthology, fans ignored all the voices telling them that there wasn't enough time, sat down and wrote their story, then -- and this is often the hardest part -- put their story in an envelope and mailed it in.

Because if you want to know the secret of how to be a professional writer, there it is: write the story, put it in an envelope, and send it to someone who can buy it and publish it. That's what the people in this anthology did, and you can do it too.

Best,

John J. Ordover

Excerpted from Strange New Worlds by Dean Wesley Smith
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